As much as I am eternally grateful and supportive of Snowden, Assange, Manning and other whistleblowers, the comparison between same sex marriage progress and reforming surveillance is a big stretch.
The Democratic Party's need to do SOMETHING progressive amidst their serially regressive agenda and actions since the 1985 Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) formation, not millennials, has driven same sex marriage progress. Same sex marriage is one of the few progressive issues the Democrats can support without risking Wall Street shutting down their funding pipeline.
Both Democrats and the GOP take their orders from Wall Street, not from millennials.
Note also that, with the exception of 2008, a high percentage of millennials don't vote, further diminishing the influence that Romero alleges.
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